CERTIFICATION

Take your career to the next level.

You know your skills are vital to the workplace, now your employers can know too.

Get prepared with the skills and credentials employers are looking (and asking) for. The Institute for Performance and Learning (formerly the Canadian Society for Training and Development) sets the standards that define the workplace performance and learning profession. If you’re looking for external recognition of your expertise, get certified.

Once you have pre-qualified please register and pay for certification online. You must be a current member to register for certification ($950 + taxes). See the Certification Handbook for more information. Register for your CTDP or CTP today!

The CTDP exam consists of 100 multiple choice questions across the broad set of Competencies for Performance and Learning Professionals®. The CTP exam consists of 30 multiple choice questions focused on Facilitating Learning Experiences. Candidates must pass their exam with a mark of 70% or greater prior to registering for skill demonstration.

Remain a member of the Institute for Performance and Learning by annually paying your association membership dues.

Complete your professional development log and submit it by your certification expiry date. 60 professional development credit hours (PDCs)* are required per 3-year period. This log must be submitted electronically by sending a copy to certification@performanceandlearning.ca

Keep a copy of receipts and supporting documentation. This supplementary information may be requested for audit purposes by the Certification Committee.

When does my certification expire?After three years of being certified, your certification expires at the same date as your membership expiry date.

Where can I find the professional development log?Please download the excel worksheet to log your credit hours here.

Once you have pre-qualified please register and pay for certification online. You must be a current member to register for certification ($950 + taxes). See the Certification Handbook for more information.

Remain a member of the Institute for Performance and Learning by annually paying your association membership dues.

Complete your professional development log and submit it by your certification expiry date. 60 professional development credit hours (PDCs)* are required per 3-year period. This log must be submitted electronically by sending a copy to certification@performanceandlearning.ca

Keep a copy of receipts and supporting documentation. This supplementary information may be requested for audit purposes by the Certification Committee.

When does my certification expire?After three years of being certified, your certification expires at the same date as your membership expiry date.

Where can I find the professional development log?Please download the excel worksheet to log your credit hours here.

Give your Career a Boost:

Certified Training Practitioner (CTP)

The Certified Training Practitioner (CTP) certification is the professional designation for those with a focus in the key competency area of facilitating training.

Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) Standard Path

The Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) enables learning and development professionals to demonstrate a broad range of competencies including: assessing performance needs, designing training, facilitating training, supporting transfer of learning and evaluating training.

Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) through Senior Portfolio Authentication.

Geared towards those who already have a seasoned portfolio, the CTDP Senior Portfolio Authentication requires a minimum of 12 years’ experience in learning and development as well as demonstrated knowledge and education in: learning and development, professional experience, accomplishments, and professional service.

Assessing Performance Needs

Assessing performance needs in response to a request for learning may result in both non-learning and learning interventions. When you assess needs, you may speak to key stakeholders, the executive and business lead or sponsor, and focus groups that represent the target audience.

Designing Training

Designing structured learning can range from creating a 15-minute e-learning self-paced tutorial on using a new software application, to building a multi-year curriculum using many delivery channels for managers across a large organization. Content can range from highly technical skills, to skills like project management or sales, to “softer” skills like communication.

Facilitating Training

Effective facilitation of structured learning results in a positive, comfortable, learner-centred environment, where learners share responsibility for the success of the learning event. An effective facilitator (trainer or instructor) maintains learner interest and supports learners in achieving the learning objectives.

Supporting Transfer of Learning

Learning transfer involves designing material and activities that help learners apply what they have learned. Supporting the transfer of learning increases the probability that learners will actually apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired. When designing transfer activities and materials, it is important to consider all the factors that support performance: clear expectations, specific and timely feedback, recognition and rewards, and the necessary information, tools and resources.

Evaluating Training

Evaluation can take many forms, including surveys of learner reaction, knowledge tests, skill demonstrations, comparisons of pre- and post-training performance, and calculations of return-on-investment. The most commonly used framework, developed by Donald Kirkpatrick, outlines four levels of evaluation.

We will guide and support you through the certification process.

Achieve CTP or CTDP certification on your schedule. You don’t have to take time off work.

Access the certification online, and work at your pace, so you’re not constantly adjusting your schedule. And you have one full year to complete it.

Use your new network to talk with fellow members working toward the same goals as you.

STAY CONNECTED

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